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arXiv:2406.17653 · Nature

Low-overhead transversal fault tolerance for universal quantum computation

Hengyun Zhou, Chen Zhao, Madelyn Cain, Dolev Bluvstein, Nishad Maskara, Casey Duckering, Hong-Ye Hu, Sheng-Tao Wang, Aleksander Kubica, Mikhail D. Lukin

Published Sep 24, 2025• 32 citations
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10.1038/s41586-025-09543-5

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